Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Avoid flailing the vegetation in the gaps in the hedges because it prevents natural regeneration .
2 He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale .
3 Her shots tore off one man 's ear and wounded another man in the buttocks as he fled from the pub .
4 The exercise of these powers can not be successfully challenged in the courts unless it can be shown that the Home Secretary has acted unreasonably or perversely .
5 Ruby 's forte was getting her own photograph in the newspapers as she ‘ arrived at the police station to advise officers working on the such-and-such case ’ ; she was a popular television chat show guest ; and she made a decent living from writing about psychometry .
6 So I have a list here now it is n't in the notes so you might just want to make a note of this .
7 What I mean is , you can choose now in the mornings whether you 're going to be Marie Antoinette or a plumber 's mate .
8 Each of them had a job to do in the mornings before they left for school .
9 I have n't had much chance to run in the mornings since you arrived .
10 ( Piontek was coach of denmark in the eigthies when they had their danish dynamite team which impressed in the world cup finals — the team including the likes of in-form Jan Molby , the elder Laudrup brother , Soren Lerby and a very good striker ( whose name slips me right now .
11 According to SSAP 8 , to the extent there is no deferred tax liability , an ACT asset may only be shown in the accounts if it can be demonstrated that there will be sufficient profits in the next 12 months to enable the surplus to be recovered against the corporation tax thereon , bearing in mind anticipated dividends .
12 The written down value has no relation to the market value of an asset and thus there can be a profit or loss in the accounts when it is sold .
13 The written down value has no relation to the market value of an asset and thus there can be a profit or loss in the accounts when it is sold .
14 What of course you 're saying here , it comes out here in 's letter , er , the structure , because er you said earlier that you realize now that we 're looking , we 're filling in the , in the gaps if you like of the local organizations .
15 I came over it below the farmhouse and hugged the side wall like I 've seen them do in the movies until I could peer round into the farmyard .
16 The offspring live in the combs while they are eggs , larvae , and pupae .
17 Platt has had to wait in the wings because he is one of four foreign players fighting for the permitted three places .
18 She must remain discreetly in the background — in the wings as it were — being ever attentive to Anne 's requirements and reputation , and acting with prudence and discretion whensoever the need arose .
19 And y am I right , am I right in saying that you 'd say that e even though it may exist in itself , that it may even be , in fact be less in the flats than it is in the , in the wi in that in the wider area ?
20 But then in the sermons when he came here to preach er I did n't see any sign of nervousness myself .
21 While many social workers told us they were relieved it was not they , but the courts , who would be arraigned in the tabloids if they ‘ got it wrong ’ , this simply passed on the same worries to the courts .
22 ‘ ( a ) destroys the goods , or disposes of the goods in a way giving a good title to the entire property in the goods or otherwise does anything equivalent to the destruction of the other 's interest in the goods , or ( b ) purports to dispose of the goods in a way which would give a good title to the entire property in the goods if he was acting with the authority of all co-owners of the goods . ’
23 If you rise up in the stirrups when I say one and sink down at two you 'll find you stay with it . ’
24 The Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) , which had won a far smaller representation in the Országgyülés than it had hoped , had campaigned for a referendum on the issue ( in an attempt to avoid indirect election within the legislature ) , which was held on July 29 .
25 Mr Jenkins , of Woodside Terrace , East Herrington , was working in the premises when he fell .
26 We do n't get to see them in the states so we have to come over here .
27 The executives who try to wring out the risk from forecasts , reworking and re-working the numbers in the equations until they produce a profit , at best plan for mediocrity .
28 Scott McNealy told Wall Street analysts last week that Sun has more 40MHz Vikings than it knows what to do with and that Texas Instruments Inc ‘ could bury ’ Sun in the chips if it would let it .
29 But erm I remember er we used to play in the houses as they were
30 Polly popped three frozen bread rolls in , then made porridge and scrambled eggs on the two-ring gas burner , hunting for mugs and plates in the cupboards as she stirred .
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